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ОглавлениеCONTENTS
Introduction – Where the Past Begins
PROLOGUE – The Breaker of Combs
I. IMAGINATION
CHAPTER ONE – A Leaky Imagination
CHAPTER TWO – Music as Muse
Quirk – Souvenir from a Dream
CHAPTER THREE – Hidden Genius
Interlude – Reorientation: Homer, Alaska
II. MEMORY IN EMOTION
CHAPTER FOUR – Genuine Emotions
CHAPTER FIVE – The Feeling of What It Felt Like When It Happened
Quirk – A Mere Mortal at Age Twenty-Five
Quirk – A Mere Mortal at Age Twenty-Six
Quirk – How to Change Fate: Step 1
III. RETRIEVING THE PAST
Interlude – The Unfurling of Leaves
Interlude – The Auntie of the Woman Who Lost Her Mind
CHAPTER SIX – Unstoppable
Quirk – Time and Distance: Age Twenty-Four
Quirk – Time and Distance: Age Fifty
Quirk – Time and Distance: Age Sixty
IV. UNKNOWN ENDINGS
CHAPTER SEVEN – The Darkest Moment of My Life
Quirk – Nipping Dog
CHAPTER EIGHT – The Father I Did Not Know
Quirk – Reliable Witness
V. READING AND WRITING
Interlude – I Am the Author of This Novel
CHAPTER NINE – How I Learned to Read
Quirk – Splayed Poem: The Road
Quirk – Eidolons
CHAPTER TEN – Letters to the Editor
CHAPTER ELEVEN – Letters in English
Quirk – Why Write?
VI. LANGUAGE
CHAPTER TWELVE – Language: A Love Story
Quirk – Intestinal Fortitude
CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Principles of Linguistics
Epilogue – Companions in the House
Acknowledgments
